After being held scoreless over the opening 73 minutes of play, the St. Bonaventure women's soccer team produced a pair of late goals to earn a 2-0 Atlantic 10 Conference win over Xavier at Parkway Field on Sunday afternoon.

The shutout is the Brown and White's fourth in A-10 play, equaling the program record set in 1999. The Bonnies now stand at 8-7 on the season and more importantly improve to 5-1 in conference action.

"It's always to nice to get a win and a shutout in conference, but our finishing and hunger near goal needs to get better," said head coach Manoj Khettry. "We hit a post, a crossbar and had a lot of near misses, but bottom line is the finishing needs to be better. We have five extremely difficult games left, but I like where we are right now."

St. Bonaventure controlled the pace of play the entire contest, building a 16-3 edge in shots, while accounting for five of the game's six corner kicks.

Despite out-shooting Xavier 7-0 in the first half, the Bonnies couldn't find the back of the net. Two of the team's seven shots found the post.

Sophomore Hannah Lapp broke the 0-0 scoreless tie at the 73:09 mark, as she put home the rebound off her own penalty kick. Fellow sophomore Tori Burchett made the penalty kick possible when she drew a hard foul inside the right side of the goal box.

The insurance goal came in the 89th minute when junior Courtney Bosse and sophomore Dakota Carroll perfected a give-and-go around Xavier's right defender. Bosse played the ball to the middle to Carroll who promptly touched it back to a streaking Bosse for the easy goal.

The shutout is junior keeper Nicole Markert's fourth of the season and the ninth of her career. Markert was only forced to make one save on the afternoon.

Bosse's team-high seventh goal of the season is her fourth in A-10 play. The Carmel, Ind. now has four career goals over three games against Xavier.

St. Bonaventure will be back in action next weekend with a pair of road games. The Bonnies will begin with a clash at George Washington on Friday, Oct. 23 at 3 p.m.